by Robin Harris | Monday, September 1, 2014 | Off-Topic |
The brutal struggles of Capital and Labor in the 1800s may seem far away in 2014, but they continue to this day. Now there’s less blood, but a good deal more money. Why do we have a Labor Day? Wikipedia says: Labor Day in the United States is a holiday...
by Robin Harris | Friday, August 29, 2014 | Hike blogging, Off-Topic |
Often named as one of the most scenic airports in America, the airport sits on a mesa high above the town. There’s a trail that circles the mesa and – more important for me – I can walk to it. According to my iPhone app, the hike is 7.22 miles with...
by Robin Harris | Thursday, August 28, 2014 | Architecture, Cloud computing & storage, Clusters, Future Tech |
Several years ago an Intel briefer promised me $50 10Gb Ethernet ports. The shocker: prices have dropped little in the last 8 years – well more than a decade in Internet time. I don’t look back as often as I should. But a note from a ZDNet reader prompted...
by Robin Harris | Monday, August 25, 2014 | Architecture, Enterprise |
25 years ago I was working on DEC’s earliest RAID array. When I look at today’s “high-end” arrays, it’s shocking how little architectural change the big iron arrays have embraced. The industry is ripe for disruption, only part of which is...
by Robin Harris | Saturday, August 23, 2014 | Hike blogging, Off-Topic |
There’s a reason Arizona doesn’t have Daylight Saving Time: we have as much daylight as we can stand. With over 300 sunny days a year – and the sunniest are often the hottest – it’s a relief to see the sun set as the perceived temps drop...
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